Hacker News: prospero

New comment by prospero in "Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity"

prospero — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:38:59 +0000

My point is that the creator/user dichotomy exists at every level of software.

New comment by prospero in "Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity"

prospero — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:50:21 +0000

Show me a software developer who isn’t an end user for someone else’s code.

Complexity as Entropy

prospero — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:07:19 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/complexity-as-entropy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346023

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by prospero in "Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)"

prospero — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:23:16 +0000

Here’s one in Java: https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan/blob/master/src/io/lacuna...

The Sudoku Affair

prospero — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:43:28 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953168

Points: 153

# Comments: 43

State and Trace

prospero — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:13:11 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/state-and-trace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715596

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Structuralism

prospero — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:53:54 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/structuralism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640371

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Senior Developer Agents

prospero — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:25:47 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/senior-developer-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42322723

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Senior Developer Agents

prospero — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:33:54 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/senior-developer-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260888

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Platforms Need New Building Blocks

prospero — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:24:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.junctionlabs.io/blog/platforms-need-new-building-blocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127422

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

The Death of the Architect

prospero — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:52:27 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/the-death-of-the-architect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998821

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Making things better

prospero — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:06:29 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/making-things-better/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927046

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Intent and Implication

prospero — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:11:13 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/intent-and-implication/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41861962

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Structures as Paths

prospero — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/structures-as-paths/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791621

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Decoupling in Depth

prospero — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/decoupling-in-depth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723789

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by prospero in "Transparent Like Frosted Glass"

prospero — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:57:32 +0000

Yes, and that is used as an example for the general point: a network transparent API doesn’t help us understand the network when it inevitably fails.

New comment by prospero in "Transparent Like Frosted Glass"

prospero — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:54:07 +0000

The point is that an interface should help you to both ignore and understand the underlying implementation. I'm not sure I understand your point about data and transport, since most interfaces (e.g. names) don't touch the network. Are these just synonyms for interface and implementation?

The Simplicity of a Limb

prospero — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/the-simplicity-of-a-limb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504383

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Simplicity of a Fractal

prospero — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:24:25 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/the-simplicity-of-a-fractal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41503954

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Coupling as Co-Explanation

prospero — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:59:38 +0000

Article URL: https://explaining.software/archive/coupling-as-co-explanation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304007

Points: 1

# Comments: 0